Karnataka’s Mysuru BJP MP Pratap Simha on Wednesday urged Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari to call the Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway after the river Cauvery. The MP additionally wrote to the Union minister explaining why the 10-lane expressway deserves to be named after the river Cauvery.
Within the letter, Simha wrote, “The partially opened 119-km 10-lane access-controlled Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway is being executed below Bharatmala Pariyojana Part-l. The profit from this expressway is multi-dimensional with financial development, social inclusion and empowerment, environmental conservation and the like being the main highlights.”
Simha additional defined that many expressways throughout the nation are named after sacred rivers. “Expressways constructed or below development within the nation are named after the sacred rivers-like the Yamuna Expressway and the Ganga Expressway in Uttar Pradesh and Narmada Expressway in Madhya Pradesh as rivers have formed historical past, tradition, traditions and religion in our nation weaving their manner through-giving life, hope and salvation- suddenly,” Simha added.
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The Mysuru MP additionally mentioned many individuals and historians requested him for naming the Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway after the river. “The outstanding residents in my Parliamentary constituency, together with historians, have urged me to impress upon the union authorities to call the Bengaluru- Mysuru Expressway as Cauvery Expressway in reverence to one of many holiest rivers within the nation which rises on Brahmagiri Hills of the Western Ghats. I hope the union authorities proposes the identical,” wrote Simha.